First European Poker Tour Player of the Month Announced
Rob Hollink declared winner of prestigious WilliamHillPoker.Com award
Wednesday 13th April 2005
Holland's Rob Hollink has been voted winner of the inaugural 'WilliamHillPoker.Com European Poker Tour Player of the Month' for March 2005, as voted by a panel of esteemed judges.
As part of the official sponsorship of the European Poker Rankings, WilliamHillPoker.Com will be awarding the title of Player of the Month and a trophy to the player judged to have had the most outstanding performance on the European Poker Tour (EPT) in the previous month.
Each month, the awards judging panel will convene to vote on the player of the month. The short-list will be selected based upon their results and placings in the previous month and their movement up the rankings list.
Hollink, who hails from Groningen, had an outstanding March when taking home the first prize of €635,000 in the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo - his first EPT event after previously winning 6 World Series of Poker (WSOP) events and 1 World Poker Tour (WPT) event. The win lifted him from 81st to 9th in the Rankings, and to 1st in the EPT all-time money list.
‘March proved to be an outstanding time to launch our 'Player of the Month' award,’ said Phil Quayle, William Hill's Poker Room Manager, ‘With action in Monte Carlo, Vienna, Dublin, Stockholm and London's Vic we knew there would be plenty to choose from, but the choice was still exceptionally hard to make.
‘All the short-listed players have played consistently well throughout the year and we congratulate them all. But in the end, Rob aced-it with the immense victory in Monte Carlo.’
‘Winning 'Player of the Month' really crowns my month off,’ said Rob Hollink, ‘And to be named the inaugural winner, well, I'll go down in history!’
Holland's Rob Hollink has been voted winner of the inaugural 'WilliamHillPoker.Com European Poker Tour Player of the Month' for March 2005, as voted by a panel of esteemed judges.